Snow Stories: My First Snow Day!

February 29, 2012.  A blizzard on leap year day. No school. No work. O'happy day! Since this was my first snow day ever (it took 4 long MN winters to finally get one) I had no idea what a proper Minnesotan should do on a snow day. We opted to eat, sleep, and watch movies.  Real Minnesotans probably ski the streets or something.  We should really live in a lazier place.  Too many overachievers here!

We did manage to get outside once the snow stopped to shovel and plow ourselves out.  'Cause that's what responsible grown folks do.  I know...I'm personally very impressed and shocked that we actually did it!

After clearing our driveway, the hubby was a good samaritan and used my girl toy to plow out a snowed in car. Meanwhile...I created a snowman. He worked. I played. Sounds about right to me.  Payment for helping the college boys get their car unstuck? 2 beers. Gotta love college kids!  

At first my snowman wasn't looking much like Frosty. More like a snow mound. Built by a girl from Florida. Our neighbor walked by and made a comment to the hubby about my snow mound looking "creative." Hummm....not sure if it was a compliment or another example of being Minnesota nice. I almost left my mound and gave up but then the bottle of beer arrived. Which has nothing to do with building a snowman. Except that if I had enough of them...my mound would start looking like Frosty. Cause now I had snowman beer goggles! 

Anyway...I'm not sure if I built the snow guy properly but I figured out a way to make him look round like Frosty. A very plump Frosty who had too many donuts.  


Then it snowed again. 


It was only supposed to be an inch. Turned out to be more like 18. Maybe what they meant to say was an inch an hour and just forgot that little detail.  

So then 'ol Frosty turned into Jabba da Hut.


Oh well.

Ziggy's World: Nap Time

Zoey...you make the best pillow.

Ziggy's World: I see water!

I think I see some water in there. 

Nope it's dry. 

Must have been a mirage. 

Bummer.

FL Adventures: Tuesday 3.13.12

Did I really just see that?!

Walking shoeless into an airplane bathroom. Pretty sure that's worse than walking barefoot into a gas station.

Ahhhhhhh...people. There are no words for you.

FL Adventures: Monday 3.12.12

And hungry people are never happy.

FL Adventures: Sunday 3.11.12

Hard Rock Casino buffet. 

Note to self...next time don't photo diary your trip to the buffet.  

Some things are best left undocumented.

FL Adventures: Friday 3.09.12

Wine shots. That's what I did with all those samples that tasted terrible. Guess I could have poured 'em out but that seemed so wasteful. Oddly enough there weren't so many wine shots toward the end of the list. I liked most of those samples.

Could it be that the wine got better toward the end?

Maybe.

However, I also noticed that the sample list got a bit fuzzier at that point.

Coincidence?

No wayyyyyyy.

I'm sure the winery just saved their best for last.

FL Adventures: Thursday 3.08.12

The news this morning informed me that large solar flares would be striking the earth today. Which could affect/cancel some flights due to the whole electrical magnetic atmosphere thingy. Awesome. Hope my life insurance is in order. So why exactly is the flight attendant soooooo worried that I turn my cell phone off . I'm just thinking we should be a wee bit more concerned about being struck by one of those solar flares and dropping outta the sky.  Seriously...interference by my little iPhone...totally the least of our concerns!